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Job candidates keep facing a lot of hurdles, including scams, Trojan horses like the one presented here, ghosting, wasting candidates' time, nepotism, etc. As a candidate you can easily spend more than 8 hours a day looking for opportunities, switching stacks, studying, doing take-home projects, etc, for absolutely nothing. Life is precious and shouldn't be burned like that!

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> Life is precious and shouldn't be burned like that

Very true. I remember when I was job hunting fot 2 years post-graduation, that these time sinks started to take meaning away from life and induced cynicism and depression (to an extent).

It's easy to forget all that once you end up getting a job, but remember to always be human and show empathy if a person cold-reaches out to you.

It is absolutely the worst. Also the feeling that this task of job searching is supremely important. You feel guilty doing anything that isn’t job searching. Meeting friends? Spending money while you aren’t making any? Seems irresponsible internally. When your day fills with stuff that isn’t job searching it makes you feel that day was a failure. Even when you do job search and you have say a month without any bites, it also makes you feel that month was a failure. You feel like you are wasting your life. At least when you had a job, that time spent counted for a little more experience. Every second without a job feels like it counts against you. You feel like a leper. Look at me who failed to secure a job, I must be a failure, you think internally.

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